Design software focuses on the digital creation or re-creation of a thing or idea. Types of design range from print media, web site, computational, 3-dimensional, structural, simulation, and more. Simulation and modeling software is closely related and sometimes integrated with design software.
Visualization software includes applications that help visualize concepts, ideas, or scenarios. This includes diagramming, geographical visualization, molecular and structure visualization, graphical data representations, and some animation.
Also included in this category are applications used in presentations. This includes not only Powerpoint and powerpoint style presentations, but live polling software, presentation capture software, and web presentations as well. As well, applications used to create, edit, convert, or touch up digital images. Software ranges from photo editing, photo cataloging, graphic design, and diagramming. Finally there are applications used to edit web pages including code editors, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors, and Content Management (CMS) systems that organize and manage web pages on a server.
Solidworks is a professional quality solid CAD software suite that is available for Windows. Solidworks is most famous for usage in engineering for design of physical objects, mechanics, and product design. It includes an elaborate simulation suite for stress testing, load testing, physics simulation, and structural integrity testing. Over 2 million engineers use Solidworks worldwide. It is also heavily used in 3D printing and fabrication.
Starry Night Pro is a realistic astronomy software premier package. Users have the ability to witness major astronomical phenomenon, research years of data and future astronomical predictions. Starry Night Pro is available for Windows and Mac devices.
Sway is an experimental software preview by Microsoft for a new presentation tool. Sway allows users to combine text and media to create a presentable website. Users can pull content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Twitter, OneDrive, YouTube, or Facebook. A sway can be viewed or displayed through the web browser or though native apps that will soon be released for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.